The Manipulators by Peter J. Hasson

Author:Peter J. Hasson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2020-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Big Tech vs. Susan B. Anthony

The Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) is a national network of more than 700,000 pro-life Americans.28 The group’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, launched the group as a way to help pro-life women win elected office.29 Facebook deleted multiple ads from the Susan B. Anthony List, just before the 2018 midterm elections. One of the ads contrasted Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen’s support for taxpayer-funded abortion with Republican candidate Marsha Blackburn’s support for ending partial-birth abortion.

“SBA List has faced repeated censorship over the last few weeks and now our ad supporting Marsha Blackburn has been disapproved, even after more than 90,000 had viewed it. Facebook must immediately stop its censorship of pro-life speech. All the information presented in our ads has been factual, if surprising to those unwilling to face the reality of pro-abortion extremism. Facebook is censoring the truth and political free speech,” SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said at the time.30

Facebook blocked another two SBA List ads as well. The videos shared the stories of two babies, Charlotte and Micah, who survived premature births. Facebook dinged them for violating policies against “sensational” content.31 As far as pro-life ads go, they were pretty boilerplate, but that was still too extreme for Facebook’s speech police. Only after intense public pressure from conservative media did Facebook reverse course and apologize for the “mistake.”

In October 2017, Twitter blocked an SBA List advertisement from running because it contained the words “killing babies.”32 As Dannenfelser recounted: “No advertiser is permitted to use the phrase ‘killing babies’. That’s what Twitter told us when they censored one of our videos.”33 The objective truth about abortion is it kills an unborn baby. Twitter would rather people didn’t see that truth.

“Some organizations seem determined to censor the pro-life message. The people who run these mega-companies manipulate the national discussion to conform to their political leanings and use their platforms to steer public opinion in their favor,” Arizona Republican congressman Andy Biggs warned in a January 2018 op-ed.34 It’s only gotten worse since then.

Facebook blocked producers of the movie Roe v. Wade from buying ads promoting their film.35 The movie was notable for taking a pro-life and anti-Planned Parenthood perspective.36 Once again, Planned Parenthood’s allies came to the rescue. They’ve done so repeatedly.

In 2017, Twitter blocked a Marsha Blackburn campaign video, hiding “behind the farcical argument that her pro-life rhetoric was ‘inflammatory’ and that it could ‘evoke a strong negative reaction,’ ” noted the Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams.37 While at the same time, Twitter allowed ReproAction, a pro-abortion political group, to buy inflammatory ads urging Twitter to bar Blackburn from buying pro-life ads.38 The Texas-based pro-life group Human Coalition has repeatedly seen its content censored by tech companies. On February 21, 2018, Twitter removed three pro-life Human Coalition ads for allegedly violating company policies against “inappropriate content” and placed the group’s advertising privileges “under review.” Twitter informed Human Coalition the group would receive an email “when the review is complete.” That email came March 22: Human Coalition’s account was suspended from running ads—any ads—on Twitter.

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